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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Reacher, The Flash, Stranger Things, Trump/Kimmel, For All Mankind, Sweet Tooth, Euphoria, Doctor Who & more!

Plus, the obscure court circuit trying to repeal the 20th century, how your utility bill funds climate denial, the real reason conservatives oppose student debt relief.

In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes published an essay in which he predicted that, by 2030, the average work week would be a mere fifteen hours. Today, the people are working longer and harder just to meet their basic needs. In the UK, real wages have been stagnant for well over a decade. And people […]

Cosmologists understand what happened after the Big Bang. But what was our Universe before then? Enter the quantum multiverse

- by Aeon Video

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The term is ubiquitous and double-edged. It is both a key source of authentic knowledge and a danger to true solidarity

- by Patrick J Casey

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Research on the social side of emotion management is showing what’s distinctive about it – and its benefits for all involved

- by Christian Jarrett

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The Fed has been reducing its balance sheet since mid-2022, which also trims the overall level of bank reserves. What other factors might be affecting the demand for bank reserves?

A parent carer to a severely disabled woman explains just how difficult life can be – and just how little help and support is available

Jelle Barkema, Maren Froemel and Sophie Piton Record-high firm exits make headlines, but who are the firms going out of business? This post documents three facts about the rising number of corporations dissolving using granular data from Companies House and the Insolvency Service. We show that the increase in dissolutions that have already materialised reflected … Continue reading Three facts about the rising number of UK business exits →

City of Coffs Harbour’s free bus travel initiative kicks off on Friday 19 April. Mayor Paul Amos believes the trial will particularly support older people who no longer drive and unlicensed teenagers who rely on parents to get around. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone...

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Today (April 18, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for March 2024, which shows that the labour market is weakening with employment falling and unemployment rising now that more normal patterns in behaviour after the holiday period disruption have returned. The good news is that full-time employment…

The legal team representing high-powered insurers Lloyd’s and Arch says that since the Nord Stream explosions were “more likely than not to have been inflicted by… a government,” they have no responsibility to pay for damages to the pipelines. To succeed with that defense, the companies will presumably be compelled to prove, in court, who carried out those attacks.  British insurers are arguing that they have no obligation to honor their coverage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which were blown […]

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In congressional testimony, school administrators also said they are investigating pro-Israel and pro-Palestine professors.

The post Columbia Suspended Two Students for Assault on Gaza Rally, School Says in Antisemitism Hearing appeared first on The Intercept.

The real politicization began It was a dry run for January 6th. And he incited it.

In all the discussion of Leif Wenar’s critique of Effective Altruism , I haven’t seen much mention of the central premise: that development aid is generally counterproductive (unless, perhaps, it’s delivered by wealthy surfers in their spare time). Wenar is quite clear that his argument applies just as much to official development aid and to […]

Brian Beutler argues today in his newsletter (subscribe here) that even though the media has belatedly begun to acknowledge the booming Biden economy, we live in a world where there are too many people with vested interests in denying to allow Biden to have a “Morning In America” validation: Even as the mainstream press comes around, there are more than enough individuals and institutions with a rooting interest in denying the health of the economy to keep economic perceptions anchored way below where they’d be under a Republican president. Indeed, it would be remarkable if sentiment pokes above water before the year is out. If you’re wondering why I think that, here’s a rough-and-ready taxonomy of the doomsayers. THE REPUBLICAN GRASSROOTS I’m thinking of millions of partisan voters, mostly anonymous, who are so invested in GOP politics or movement conservatism or even just Donald Trump that they interpret Democratic rule as coterminous with apocalyptic decline. They huff right-wing media for hours a day. Their identities are wrapped up in their disdain for liberals, big cities, Hollywood, and the mainstream media.

Even when it’s ugly—especially when it’s ugly—journalists owe readers the truth.

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